What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to Vue.js, explains the core concepts we need to build Vue.js applications. It will help you set up a development environment with the recommended settings for Vue.js development.
Chapter 2, Creating a Todo List App, builds upon the core concepts and explains a key concept in creating interactive web applications – reactivity. It also introduces the development and debugging tools as important tools to maintain and inspect applications.
Chapter 3, Building a Local Weather App, explores external data as a resource of a web application. It will add a testing framework to the application, which we can use to increase the robustness of the application by identifying both happy and unhappy user flows and how to deal with those.
Chapter 4, Building the Marvel Explorer App, leans heavily on interacting with a great volume of external data and connecting to public APIs to retrieve the correct data for a user. It uses composables (a concept for working with stateful logic) to use and reuse functions and compose more complex behavior. By leveraging the default router, we will introduce multiple views and routes to an application.
Chapter 5, Building a Recipe App with Vuetify, teaches you how to use third-party libraries, such as Vuetify, to quickly build an interface. It will strengthen the concept of working with APIs by iteration and introduce Pinia, the default state management library for Vue.js. With Pinia, you will learn to persist state in the browser. You will learn refactoring techniques and experience dealing with changing features and requirements.
Chapter 6, Creating a Fitness Tracker with Data Visualization continues the topic of persisting state and teaches you how to store data in an external database, as well as adding entry-level authentication to a web application. It demonstrates trade-offs between abstraction and a more pragmatic approach when building a feature, revisiting refactoring strategies.
Chapter 7, Building a Multi-Platform Expense Tracker Using Quasar, sidesteps in a different direction, where you learn how to use web technologies to build applications for one or even multiple non-web platforms using a framework. It continues to solidify previously learned topics by revisiting similar tech stacks but with different goals and features in mind.
Chapter 8, Building an Interactive Quiz App, dives deep into developing an app from backend to frontend and includes architectural concepts and decisions as well. It introduces Nuxt, which is one of the most popular and developer-friendly meta frameworks for the Vue.js ecosystem. You will interact with WebSockets and see how to create real-time interactivity between multiple clients at the same time.
Chapter 9, Experimental Object Recognition with TensorFlow, teaches you the prototyping practices and how to familiarize yourself with new technologies by experimenting in an isolated environment. It also touches upon developing and testing early on a specific target. Most importantly, it teaches you to have a bit of fun when building new projects, keeping you interested and motivated in your own continuous development.
Chapter 10, Creating a Portfolio with Nuxt.js and Storyblok, circles back to Nuxt as a framework to generate code, instead of acting as a real-time web server. This chapter allows you to create a personal project, where you can showcase your talents as a developer while progressing through this book. It connects the application to a headless content management system (CMS) and teaches you how to automate tasks such as deployments.
